LYLE LOVETT QUOTES II
American singer/songwriter (1957- )
It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are?
LYLE LOVETT
attributed, IMDB
I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.
LYLE LOVETT
"Lyle Lovett talks music and motorcycling", San Diego Union-Tribune, July 12, 2015
I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.
LYLE LOVETT
Esquire, February 2012
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.
LYLE LOVETT
San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 1999
My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores -- back when there were record stores -- they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.
LYLE LOVETT
CNN Entertainment, December 7, 2009
I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.
LYLE LOVETT
Texas Monthly, March 2012
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.
LYLE LOVETT
Southern Living, March 2012
She said I've got a 40-gallon stetson hat
With a 38-foot brim
We could dance around the outside baby
'Til we both fall in
And you can rope me on the prarie
And you can ride me on the plain
And I will be your Cinderella
If you'll be my cowboy man
LYLE LOVETT
"Cowboy Man"
Anything that makes the show unique is something I enjoy. If people blow their horns from their boats at Humphreys, or someone yells out something, that says to the audience: 'This is only happening right now. This is only happening tonight.' That's a good thing, no matter what it is.
LYLE LOVETT
"Lyle Lovett talks music and motorcycling", San Diego Union-Tribune, July 12, 2015
I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discouraging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.
LYLE LOVETT
The Hartford Courant, November 18, 2011
When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
LYLE LOVETT
Southern Living, March 2012